"Miraculous" Stem Cell Progress Reported In China

destinyland writes "In China's Guangdong Province there's been 'almost miraculous' progress in actually using stem cells to treat diseases such as brain injury, cerebral palsy, ataxia and other optic nerve damage, lower limb ischemia, autism, spinal muscular atrophy, and multiple sclerosis. One Chinese biotech company, Beike, is now building a 21,500 square foot stem cell storage facility and hiring professors from American universities such as Stanford. Two California families even flew their children to China for a cerebral palsy treatment that isn't available in the US. The founder of Beike is so enthusiastic, he says his company is exploring the concept of using stem cells to extend longevity beyond 120 years."

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What about Social Security?

[hemp]

Social Security is officially screwed now...

Re:A Dying Breed

[Moryath]

Let's take stock and see:

Carter - hated nuclear energy, irrationally enough to block the US from responsibly recycling fuel.
Obama - continues and expands Carter's policies, ironically enough causing us to generate FAR more nuclear waste than we need to.

Carter - Believed that forcing the price of energy up was "good" for the environment.
Obama - "Under my energy plan, prices will necessarily skyrocket."

Carter - campaigned primarily on nebulous "change" than concrete policy. Deliberately obfuscated policy whenever possible.
Obama - campaigned on nebulous "change", avoided making concrete statements whenever possible.

Carter - believed that "talking to everyone" was good. Ignored the danger of legitimizing the illegitimate or insane.
Obama - Believes in direct, non-preconditioned talks with Iran, Hamas, etc... is willing to legitimize anyone, no matter how illegitimate or insane.

Carter - had barely served a term in his state legislature before becoming a one-term governor.
Obama - barely served (was absent more often than there) in state legislature before becoming a half-absentee, non-full-term Senator.

Carter - put Franklin Raines in as "assistant director of the White House Office of Domestic Policy."
Obama - defended Franklin Raines and was one of the black Senators who stonewalled the investigation into Raines' cooking the books of Fannie Mae.

Carter - was a media darling and ran a cult of personality prior to his election.
Obama - was a media darling and rana cult of personality prior to his election.

Carter - had ZERO foreign policy expertise.
Obama - has ZERO foreign policy expertise.

Carter - believe that the US "leading by example" would stop others from doing things like making nuclear weapons.
Obama - believes the same.
Reality - How's that working out with India? Pakistan? Iran? North Korea? Red China?

Carter - is a raving anti-semite, as shown in his "books" of the past decade.
Obama - Handed his first interview to an Arab news network which broadcasts video of horrific war crimes and rabid anti-semitic rantings, such as calling Jews and Christians "pigs and monkeys." Met in his first week with members of a Hamas front group. Supports legitimizing regimes which make statements like "Israel shall be wiped from the map." And let's not forget the racist church he not only joined, but raised his daughters in.

Carter - never would have been elected had the Republicans run a sane candidate against him.
Obama - got to run against John McCain.

Carter - couldn't get his speeches straight even with his notes in front of him.
Obama - hems, haws, um, er, eh, evades, and blows it when there's not a pre-scripted question and teleprompter to help him out.

I could go on, but you get the picture. Obama is Jimmy Carter 2.0, and just as dangerous for the same reasons.